• stoicmaverick@lemmy.world
    51·
    2 days ago

    I know he lost the election, but anybody have time to give context for the rest of it? I’m trying to keep up with y’all, but my news feed fills up pretty fast just with the domestic stuff down here these days.

    • ImplyingImplications
      16·
      2 days ago

      In Canada, the country is split up into a few hundred ridings and each riding gets a representative in Parliament. The political party with the most representatives forms government and their leader is the Prime Minister who is allowed to stay at a specific house in Ottawa. The political party with the second most representatives forms the official opposition and their leader is the Leader of the Opposition who also gets to stay at a specific house in Ottawa.

      Pierre Poilievre lost the election in his riding, meaning he lost his seat, meaning he can’t be opposition leader, meaning he can’t stay in the house reserved for the opposition leader. One can assume he also shat his bed.

      It’s recently been announced that another Conservative member that did win a seat in a landslide victory will be resigning from it. The idea here is that a new election for just that seat will be held (a by-election) and Pierre will run for it. It’s expected he’ll win it easily and will once again be a member of parliament, and can once again be the leader of the opposition, and can move back into his house.

      • CircaVOPEnglish
        9·
        2 days ago

        Wouldn’t it be amazing if Maxime Bernier (PPC) Blake Desjarlais (NDP) and the Longest Ballot all also ran against PeePee… he’ll win that craven pathetic no-brain AB riding and weasel his way back into Parliament where each time he opens his pie hole Carney will remind him, he’s only there cause Carney let him be there. PeePee is a weak and pathetic leader, easy for Carney to humiliate.

        • Vex_Detrause
          2·
          1 day ago

          This is amazing! Have not heard of this. I might need to switch party!

          • CircaVOPEnglish
            2·
            1 day ago

            They only run in select ridings, when they do run candidates - it’s a lot of them but all in one riding.

        • altasshet
          5·
          2 days ago

          I’m still angry that the libs even ran a candidate in Griesbach. They had no chance, why steal votes from the NDP for absolutely nothing?

          Edit: but I’m super into your idea. Flight them with fun and malicious compliance.

          • ryedaft@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            1 day ago

            Does Canada have electoral alliances? Like, we won’t pull our candidate but we’ll do a switcheroo. Haven’t heard of it for a single seat but for elections we usually have them. Party A and Party B join forces so that the votes that weren’t enough to get a seat are used by the partner that got more votes in that district.

            Edit: it’s called Apparentment and you don’t have it

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparentment

        • ImplyingImplications
          6·
          2 days ago

          The PM isn’t directly elected! Technically, they are appointed by the monarch of Canada, who is currently King Charles, but the monarch is constitutionally required to follow the directions of the government of Canada.

          In practice, this means the party who forms government picks the PM, who is typically also the party’s leader. Fun fact, because of this, the PM also doesn’t actually need a seat in parliament! That’s how Mark Carney became PM after Trudeau stepped down. Carney now has a seat after running in the recent election. It creates a lot of issues if the PM doesn’t have a seat in parliament as well as the optics of the PM never actually winning an election, but it’s allowed!